Ap English Literature Terms Anaphora-rhetorical Modes

A sub type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.

Parody

A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. It exploits peculiarities of an author's expression.

Pedantic

An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish, might be described as "show-offy"; using big words for the sake of using big words.

Periodic Sentence

The opposite of loose sentence, a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. This independent clause is preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone.

Personification

A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions.

Point of View

In literature, the perspective from which a story is told. There are first person narrators and third person narrators.

Prose

One of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms. In prose the printer determines the length of the line; in poetry , the poet determines the length of the line.

Repetition

The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern.

Rhetoric

From the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.

Rhetorical modes

This flexible tem describes the variety, the convenions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing. The four most common rhetorical modes (often referred to as "modes of discourse") are as follows: Exposition, argumentation, description, narration.